(WASHINGTON) DoD Report: Relocates $1.5-billion that was for Afghanistan and will be used to replace 78.25-miles of border fencing in states of Arizona and Texas Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters on Friday #AceNewsDesk reports | Ace News Services

#AceNewsReport – May.11: “There was a billion and a half dollars that was reprogramed”, Shanahan said. “Some of it did come from money we were saving, or whatever terminology you want to use, from Afghanistan” Pentagon spokesperson Tom Crosson said in a statement on Friday that the Defence Department was drawing $1.5 billion from a variety of sources within the department including “cost savings, programmatic changes and revised requirements”.